Presented
by BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! with the support of the Ainslie and Gorman Arts Centres.
Wednesday
27 April you are invited to a night of poetry, music and performance from some
of Canberra’s most original writers, musicians and performers. Including
Eleanor Malbon, David Finnigan, Nick Delatovic and Melinda Smith, this
gathering is to launch Andrew Galan’s latest collection, For All The Veronicas
(The Dog Who Staid) - New Poems, published by Brisbane’s Bareknuckle Books. The
event will be MCed by BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT!’s Joel Barcham.
So join
us at the Gorman Arts Centre from 7:30pm for an 8pm start.
Cost:
Free.
Drinks
and books available for sale at the event.
If you
would like more information about each of our performers please read on.
Andrew
Galan
Andrew
Galan is an internationally published poet and co-producer of renowned poetry
event BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT!. Described by reviewers as ‘riddled with satire’,
his poetry is gut, direct, and imagination and reality meeting to eat and
fight. Showcased at events including the Woodford, National Folk and Queensland
Poetry festivals, and Chicago’s Uptown Poetry Slam, his verse appears in
journals such as the Best Australian Poems, Jet Fuel Review and Cordite. That
Place of Infested Roads (life during wartime) - KF&S Press, 2013 - is his
first book. His latest is For All the Veronicas (The Dog Who Staid) -
Bareknuckle Books, 2016.
Melinda
Smith
Melinda
Smith won the 2014 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for her fourth book of
poems, Drag down to unlock or place an emergency call (Pitt St Poetry, 2013).
She has performed her work all over Australia. She is based in Canberra, and is
currently poetry editor of The Canberra Times. Her next book of poems will be
out later in 2016.
Nick
Delatovic
Nick
Delatovic is a writer, producer and performer based in Canberra. He has been
one of the folks behind You Are Here festival since 2011, creating and
assisting with hundreds of experimental arts events in that time. An alumni of
the Street Theatre's Hive program for emerging writers, Nick has written stage
plays including Rig (2011) and The Last Prom (2013). He is currently touring
Bomb Collar, his one-man sci-fi cabaret musical. As one half of music-and-film
production company Lick Nuke he has created dozens of music videos and the odd
short film, including the Screen ACT-commissioned Lights (2013).
Nick Delatovic - Wishing from Luke McGrath on Vimeo.
David Finnigan
David is
a writer, theatre-maker, festival producer and pharmacy assistant from
Canberra, Australia. With science-theatre ensemble Boho, he works with research
scientists from institutions including University College London, the Stockholm
Resilience Centre, CSIRO and the Australian Academy of Sciences. He has been a
resident artist for the Battersea Arts Centre in London, Tanghalang Pilipino in
Manila and Campos de Gutierrez in Medellin, Colombia. David has been
commissioned to create new work for organisations including, Coney, the
Powerhouse Museum, the Canberra Street Theatre, Opera Australia, the National
Film and Sound Archive, and the Free Word Centre in London, and his scripts
have been nominated for the Max Afford National Playwrights Award and the
Queensland Premier’s Literary Award. David is a Churchill Fellow (2012) and an
Australia Council Early Career Fellow (2014-16) and founded and co-directed two
ongoing arts festivals: the Crack Theatre Festival in Newcastle (2009-10), and
the You Are Here festival in Canberra (2011-13).
Eleanor
Malbon
Ellie is
a Canberran who writes poetry. She performs predominantly in Canberra;
including for BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT!, Feminartsy, RIP publishing, Grapple
publishing, Scissors Paper Pen, the Canberra Poetry Slam, You Are Here festival
and various other charming pop up events.
